This may certify whom it may concern, that we Indians, whose names are now underwritten, do own to have received full satisfaction of the within mentioned John Harrison for all the within mentioned tract of land being butted and bounded as within specified. As witness hereof, we have hereunto set our hands aud seals this 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord God 1095-6. Betty Pathungo, her marke, Pathungo Wappatoe his marke,

EUAS JoZES PvTrtTTNOO A^KAMME, her marke,

Chbishoau PATnuN'oo, her inarke, PoitiGE, his marke.

Elaas Arc-wash, Arawaska's wifes, Hannah, her marke, Ingen. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of James Mott, Samuel Paxmer, Joseph Hop.ton, the inarke of Akabaska.<*

The white-wood trees, referred to in the above deed by the sachem Pathung, are the Liriodendron tulipifera of Linnaeus, from the trunk of which the Indians manufactured their canoes ; hence it was commonly called by them "canoe wood."

" Whoever (remarks Mr. Downing) has once seen the tulip tree in a situation where the soil was favorable to its free growth, can never forget it ; with a clean trunk, straight as a column for forty or fifty feet, surmounted by a fine ample summit of rich green foliage. It is, in our estimation, decidedly the most stately tree in North America. When standing alone, and encouraged in its lateral growth, it will indeed often produce a lower head -- but its tendency is to rise; and it only exhibits itself in all its stateliness and majesty, when, supported on such a noble columnar trunk, it towers far above the heads of its neighbors of the park or forest. Even when at its loftiest elevation, its large specious blossoms -- which, from their form, one of our poets has likened to a chalice --